- died 17 October 2009, Rome

Rome

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, Italy

Italy

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), was an Italian

Italian people

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 singer.

Life and career

Born as Carla Gaiano in Ferrara

Ferrara

Ferrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north...

, Boni had worked on RAI

RAI

RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...

, the Italian State Radio and television network, as a singer since 1951. She sang the Italian version of song Johnny Guitar

Johnny Guitar

Johnny Guitar is a 1954 Republic Pictures Western film starring Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, and Scott Brady.The screenplay was based upon a novel by Roy Chanslor. Though credited to Philip Yordan, he was merely a front for the actual screenwriter, blacklistee Ben Maddow. ...

. In 1953 she won the Festival della canzone italiana

Festival della canzone italiana

The Festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo is a popular Italian song contest, held annually in the city of Sanremo, in Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs...

 with Flo Sandon, singing "Viale d'Autunno". In 1955 Boni won the "Festival di Napoli" with the song "'E stelle 'e Napule", which she sang with her husband, Gino Latilla. In 1956 she released a new version of the standard Mambo Italiano

Mambo Italiano

Mambo Italiano may refer to:* Mambo Italiano , directed by Émile Gaudreault* Mambo Italiano a popular song written by Bob Merrill in 1954...

, which went on to become her greatest hit. In 1957 she released the song "La Casetta in Canada". During her career she formed a band with her husband, Nilla Pizzi

Nilla Pizzi

Nilla Pizzi was an Italian singer.Born as Adionilla Negrini Pizzi in Sant'Agata Bolognese, she was particularly famous in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s. She won the first edition of the San Remo Festival in 1951, singing "Grazie dei fiori", and she won also the second edition , singing "Vola...

 and Giorgio Consolini. During the 1990s she introduced a new version of "Mambo Italiano

Mambo Italiano

Mambo Italiano may refer to:* Mambo Italiano , directed by Émile Gaudreault* Mambo Italiano a popular song written by Bob Merrill in 1954...

".

Last years

In 2007 she pulled out of the making of an album which was to be titled "Aeroplani e Angeli" with songs written by Alessandro Orlando Graziani. Although seriously ill in 2009 she shot a music video for the song "Portami in India".

Death

She died in Rome after a long illness. Her funeral was held at the Santa Maria in Monte Santo church, known as the "Church of artists".

External links

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I68t05ruazU
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F17vY8l1Itk
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9K8vcF0XQs